The History Of Social Media

The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency The History. of, Social Media TIEvears in the māking 1971 The first email was sent, between two computers, that were literally sitting right next to one another. QWERTYUIOP 1978 The first BBS (Black Board System) came online. Originally these were primarily hosted on personal computers and users had to dial in through the host computer's modem. Only one person at a time could gain access to the BBS. 1988 IRC (Intenet Relay Chat) was developed and used for file sharing, link sharing, and keeping in touch. 1994 GeoCities was born, the concept was to allow users to create their own websites based on one of six cities. 1997 SixDegrees launched, allowing users to create profiles and become friends with other users. Was purchased in 2000 for 125 million, closed in 2001. AOL Instant Messenger was also launched this year, being the first to allow instant real time dialogue exchange. 2000 The .com bubble bursts, sending the stock markets crashing, and leaving web entrepreneurs dazed and confused. 2002 Friendster is launched, gathering over 3 million users in the first 3 months (about 1 in every 126 internet users at that time). nenwn John Smith Product manager 045-74 2003 This year we saw the launch of MySpace (by 2006 had grown to be the most popular social network in the world), Plaxo (the largest online address book), LinkedIn (one of the first mainstream social media networks dedicated to business), Hi5, Second Life, and Del.icio.us. 2004 Facebook is launched, originally as a way of connecting college students. More than half of the 19,500 students signed up within the first month. B Like Flickr launched for photo sharing, claiming to now host more than 4 billion photos. 2005 YouTube was the first major video hosting and sharing site, to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. 2006 Twitter is born. A micro-blogging website, 140 characters of less, Twitter now has over 200 million users, generating more than 65 million tweets per day. 2008 Facebook overtakes MySpace as the leading social network- ing site, with currently over 600 million users, spending over 700 million minutes on Facebook each month. 2010 After their piece of the pie, Google launches Google Buzz, a social net- working and messaging tool that is integrated into the company's web- based email program, allowing users to share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments. LOL! 2011 Spling is born. Within the first four days following launch, the site generated over 1 million hits, boasting 5,000 unique visitors and 125,000 page views. As a result, Spling.com was tagged as one of the fastest growing social media web- sites to ever launch. STATS FROM wikipedia.org, webdesignerdepot.com, mashable.com, webhostinggeeks.com bly one creative agency